> remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does.

That doesn’t sound right.

Where are you getting the numbers? Are you going by NAICS codes?

Here - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP for Number of Manufacturing jobs down to 12 million. a Few years ago it was going up before trump came in again.

remember tech sector roughly employs 2 million people thereabouts.